Today, Good Morning America hosted PEN/Hemingway Award winner Justin Cronin, whose The Passage (Ballantine, 978-0345504968, $27; RH Audio abridged CD, $45) pubs today. PW’s starred review called it an “engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America overrun by the gruesome reality behind the wish-fulfillment fantasies.”
On Today, Jim Cole described Blindsided: Surviving a Grizzly Attack and Still Loving the Great Bear (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312601096, $25.99), which also pubs today.
This evening, the ABC Family channel premieres the series Pretty Little Liars, based on the Sara Shepard book (HarperTeen, 978-0062009548, $8.99), whose reprint/TV tie-in edition pubs today.
The Leonard Lopate Show chatted with Lydia Davis, whose latest is The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (FS&G, 978-0374270605, $30).
This evening, The Daily Show interviews Christopher Hitchens about his new memoir Hitch-22 (Twelve, 978-0446540339, $26.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $34.98).
The Colbert Report meets with Make magazine editor Mark Frauenfelder, author of Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World (Portfolio, 978-1591843320 $25.95; Tantor unabridged CD, $29.99). PW thought “People have hobbies because they are interesting and fun; by inflating hobbyism into a belief system, Frauenfelder doesn't add much to their appeal.”
Authors on tonight’s Tavis Smiley:
Pulitzer-winning L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik discusses Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century (Free Press, 978-1416532163, $30; Tantor unabridged CD, $49.99).
Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr., whose memoir is An Actor and a Gentleman (Wiley, 978-0470574713, $26.95).
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